Development update

[holmes1977]

I am surprised that even the newly updated Vray for Rhino doesn't get any traffic...

Not a good sign....

I had also noticed that. Its also sad how the once thriving Vray4Su community has turned into a ghost town. I haven't helped by not posting anything. I hope for a revival when the new update comes out.

[peerman]

Yes it's a bit quiet indeed, also from the developers side. Summer's almost over so... They could at least give us a clue of what's going on?

[ValeroStudio]

The Vray forum on Sketchucation is pretty active. I think that we might have lost a few folks along the way that were not patient enough for this new release. Some went over to Maxwell and some use other engines that have come along in the last year. The loyal users will stick around and wait for the new release. My guess is that Vray for Rhino was never really that popular which is probably why they waited so long to update their version. I would think that Rhino is not as widely used as VRay. I might be wrong though.

[kwistenbiebel1]

I hope they got a response on the job advertisements they sent out for new coders....
With no news from Choasgroup, it feels development for Vray for Sketchup has stopped

[arcgraphics]

Any news on how the Vray for sketchup upgrade is coming along?

[dkendig]

Hey everyone, sorry for being so quiet, we have had our noses to the grindstone lately. Here's a few quick notes: Dome Light has been added, tons of optimizations and speed improvements, RT has been added for the most part, some upgrade issues that have been around for a while have been fixed, 60-70 cases in our bug tracker have been resolved in the past 4 months, and we're still chugging away!

[peerman]

Dome Light! RT! Thanks for the update, good to hear you guys (maybe also girls) are busy getting Sketchup on par with Rhino (and maybe further?). Still no ETA?

[ValeroStudio]

Any chance of getting a peak of what was shown at BaseCamp yesterday? YouTube upload soon maybe???

[dkendig]

Not sure what the plans are for showing anything off, but I'm hoping we will be starting beta before too much longer, which will be much more fun than just watching some video clips.

[ValeroStudio]

Heck yeah!

[peerman]

Great news! Still, a couple of videos to ease the pain of waiting wouldn't hurt

[arcgraphics]

Thanks dkendig, your update news is much appreciated, can wait to try out the beta version.

[ValeroStudio]

Are we looking at faster parsing times? The lull from clicking the render button is torture sometimes when doing test renders. I guess with RT that will not matter much though. It's just that I have seen VR in Max and you click render and it instantly opens the VFB and starts the light cache.

[ValeroStudio]

Would also love to get multi-layered EXRs out of the VFB. Thats a wish list item though.

[dkendig]

ValeroStudio, do you have a good example of a scene that takes entirely too long to parse? There have been some speedups, but we haven't really had much benchmarking done yet. I'd be glad to try one out if you can send one over to our bug tracker (vfswip@chaosgroup.com). I recommend zipping the file first.